[Edited on 19/4/11 by carpmart]
Seen a 07 bandit with 5k miles, its a fully repaired Cat C, they want £2400 for it, would you????? Lot of bike for the money, but worried resale maybe impossible
same bike with clean history but 18k miles advertised at £2595
Resale value will never be as per without the Cat C stamp, but why worry, you're effectively getting a 1 years use bike for 3 or 4 year old
money.
Buy it, use it, abuse it, but most of all enjoy it, then if you want shut, worse case break it up, you'll get your money back.
At that sort of money resale value is hardly worth bothering about, buying a new bike you'd loose that £2.4k just riding it off the forecourt.
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Originally posted by r1_pete
Resale value will never be as per without the Cat C stamp, but why worry, you're effectively getting a 1 years use bike for 3 or 4 year old money.
Buy it, use it, abuse it, but most of all enjoy it, then if you want shut, worse case break it up, you'll get your money back.
At that sort of money resale value is hardly worth bothering about, buying a new bike you'd loose that £2.4k just riding it off the forecourt.
i guess you'd have to chat to the owner and be happy its been repaired properly. I've driven a cat D right off ford focus for the last 40k
miles and been very happy i took the punt.
When i was about to buy mine, i rang up the dvla, and there first reaction was has it passed all its tests, i don't know what or how rigorous
these would be to have a car/bike put back on the road, but theres some peace of mind there. their next question was has it got a log book, when i
answered in the affirmative they basically said you haven't anything to worry about...
[Edited on 19/4/11 by mrwibble]
Its from a well know salvage yard, have bought bikes from them in the past. Ok they didn't repair it as it was a part ex, but am fairly confident in them
ok spoke to the 2 places selling the bikes mentioned above, both will accept £2400 for them, so do i go with lower milage and cat c, or higher mileage
with no marks on V5??
[Edited on 19/4/11 by MK9R]
Higher miles, no marks on the V5 is my advice .............................. but I know nothing ...................... or so my wife regularly tells
me!
[Edited on 19/4/11 by carpmart]
My bike is a fair amount older but is also cat c. Basically neighbour hit it in our road and everything was scuffed down one side - no structural
damage at all. To replace the bits with new the assessor reckoned 2 grand and it was then made cat c. All I did was was replace a pillion peg, MOT it,
and it was good to go again (although to be fair it isn't in 'pristine' condition, all it does is get me to work and back).
There was absolutely nothing wrong with it beyond scuffs.
Maybe with a newer bike you would need more serious damage to cat c, but if they have some pics of the damage and it isn't completely squished i
would have no qualms about riding one. Bikes are so simple that as long as it isn't bent it will be fine.
how much higher? might save on service costs on the cat c, but then again I reckon your the sort of bloke whos gonna service either bike after he's bought it cuz he doesn't know when its last been done...
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Originally posted by mrwibble
how much higher? might save on service costs on the cat c, but then again I reckon your the sort of bloke whos gonna service either bike after he's bought it cuz he doesn't know when its last been done...
I'd go with the lower milage for your intended use, if you do 13K on it its 13K you have managed, and serviced, and taken it up to 18K.
13K on the other one takes it to 31K, and over 20K on any bike holds something of a stigma for buyers.
As long as the engine wasn't damaged in the cause of the cat C...... its up to you what you value most, engine wear or the cat C stamp, value
least really....
on the 5 k bike are you sure the milage is correct most of the time on that kind of bike the clocks get a whack when they go down has he so may have been replaced with secound hand ones any pictures before the repair
It's probably been off the road a while when in the hands of salvage and being repaired so the miles are low. I don't think the money saving is a great incentive to buy it but if it's the bike you want and you are not looking to make money on it there should be no problem.
buy the CAT c, run it about, keep your eyes open for a frame and V5 from a straight one, swap it all over later on and sell when your done with it
Well ended up blowing the top on the budget and got myself a real nice 58 plate BMW F650 GS, the new 800cc twin pot 
. Its the bike i really wanted
and have wanted for years, just was wrestling with cost over a jap commuter. Cant wait to pick it up now!!!